The big reveal from last weekend’s teaser.
At least it feels like there’s 101 of them. No, not Dalmatians (as wonderful as they are), but Glibs Gulch hounds. I took one off WebDom and 10b0t’s hands, given them being overwhelmed by dogs and children simultaneously. This one (Rosie) is Kaiser’s favorite among his siblings, and they have been entertaining one another endlessly. Endlessly. And noisily. And messily. And destructively. And endlessly. Did I mention that it doesn’t stop?
But let’s celebrate humans by recognizing today’s birthdays, which include a dude who was totally chill; Bernie Sanders with talent; an absolute icon in American arts and letters; the true Mrs. Frank Costanza; some Italian chick; a guy who looks like every commenter on this site; and a guy who told me it would be great for me to come into work today.
Links are another thing that doesn’t stop.
To be fair, she does have nice legs.
The FCC needs to be reduced to maybe 6 people to allocate EM spectrum- and that’s it.
And do that right after shutting down DEA and hanging all of the top brass.
This is an OF that I will not be subscribing to.
There does seem to be a lot of this going around.
Normally I’d take her side, but the duck lips changed my mind.
Plausible, it’s the only thing I watch on TV.
Any time someone claims they have found the worst song ever recorded, the Old Guy rolls this out. It’s an absolute classic. It’s also one of the greatest songs ever recorded.
“given them being overwhelmed by dogs and children simultaneously”
WC Fields had a point?
Is muck-raking socialist?
No necessarily, but Sinclair was.
I think muck-racking is about as equal opportunity as you can get in politics. That and graft and corruption are truly open to all races, creeds, colors and genders.
The muck-racking era was one in which most populists, i.e. the rackers, were socialists/fascists.
I don’t look anything like the Game of Thrones guy.
He is potato shaped…
Same here. I am a chiseled slab of beefcake.
Or maybe a gristled slab.
Happy birthday Lawrence Kasdan?
Happy birthday Giorgia Meloni?
I think millions of people fit that description.
Happy birthday Max Schreck?
Paul Muni?
Marty Feldman?
Alfred E. Neuman ?
Paul Reubens?
Hopefully not at the moment, of course.
Dr. Jack Griffin?
I was going to guess Heike Kamerlingh Onnes. Close, but no cigar.
I was going with Daryl Mitchell.
I thought Walt Disney.
Happy birthday Ted Williams?
Nope, in his case, not totally, just his head.
“This is an OF that I will not be subscribing to.”
I’m sure they are all over 18.
He’ll only do it when OF is running a two-for-one deal.
Why anyone would subject themselves to a HOA association is beyond me. The only people who enjoy living under their petty tyranny are the same sorts of people who love big brother in general.
In some locales, they’re very hard to avoid. In others, they’re preferable to the even more tyrannical and even more petty municipal governments, and/or the shitty neighbors. Living amongst people is barely tolerable.
This. When we lived in the Phoenix area, there was essentially no choice. Ditto when we were in the Chicago-Milwaukee axis and Austin. EVERY available home was in an HOA. The Austin one was particularly bad in a way one can only understand after living in an Asian neighborhood (HOA walking around with rulers to measure grass height, for example).
Yeah, but was all of the grass straight, and pointing down…
My Austin based son recently moved to Bartlett, an empty farm town that will soon be in the perimeter of Austin’s tentacles
Texas in my rear view mirror, 40 years ago. Every day I’m grateful that I was able to make that move. HH tomorrow, I think we’re ready.
I know my fathers widow loves it. And, if you love cruises and Disney, you would be the type.
It is for people who love packaged lives, where everything is managed by someone else, nothing is out of place, and you know exactly how you fit into the scheme of things.
So, no one here would do it unless it was the least bad option.
Again, it very much depends on the HOA. I think the size of the HOA has a lot to do with it – the smaller the better.
Mine is very tolerable indeed, and does a far better job maintaining the roads than the county. When you cross from the county road to the HOA private road, the transition is very apparent in several ways.
Virtually required in this area. It seems like all of the neighborhoods built after the mid-80’s were set up this way. Ours is pretty cheap – about $15 a month, and mostly they cut the grass in the common area and rebark the hiking trail every few years. Oh, and popsicles for kids on the annual 4th of July bike parade.
Every time some a-hole tries to use it to play dictator, they get piled on by the neighbors.
Daily Wire needs to get rid of that huge ad that covers a quarter of the page. And no, I’m not subscribing.
“The revelation that Roske has been using a female name and pronouns is significant, given the rise in transgender violence across the United States.”
What rise in transgender violence?
People calling themselves transgender are committing more crime.
“People calling themselves transgender are committing more crime.”
Not seeing it.
Well I’m sure there’s just piles of data on the crime rates of a group that comprises around a tenth of a percent of the population 🙄️ It’s only because it’s such an infinitesimally small group that a few of them showing up on national news stories committing mass murder is intriguing. If a half dozen paraplgegics who’d been struck by lightning started showing up on the evening news it’d make you think “Well that’s a little weird…”
Common Tater:
Go back 50 years, and no criminal was calling themselves transgender. Several criminals have learned that calling themselves transgender gets them special treatment and into a woman’s prison. Put those together, and I would say that people calling themselves transgender is as accurate as a description as you could ask for.
“a few of them showing up on national news stories committing mass murder is intriguing”
I think it’s two. One started social transitioning then stopped (so barely a detransitioner), and the other there is less information than that.
A lot of antifa is trans in some way.
There’s also the Zizians, a nut bar cult of transers who committed several murders.
“A lot of antifa is trans in some way.
There’s also the Zizians, a nut bar cult of transers who committed several murders.”
Those are transtrenders. It’s like people claiming to be queer or trans non-binary.
Hey Tater, you are arguing that actual transitioners are not committing more crime, which is fine and may be true, although it judging it requires more data about the perps than we have or are likely to get, but Ted said
“People calling themselves transgender” which includes the people you are excluding
Ersatz Scotsmen, then?
Somebody referenced about half a dozen over the last 5 years or so. Which, again, is only remarkable because we’re talking about a sub-group comprising a fraction of 1% of the population, and mass shootings are already very rare, despite the hair-on-fire panic-mongering of the chattering classes. That also excludes other forms of violence, like one-off murders, assaults, or attempted assassinations. Like I said, I doubt there’s enough data on such a small sub-group to even chart a trend, but it wouldn’t be all that surprising to me if a group of people who are already definitionally mentally unwell, jacked up on cross-sex hormones, and have been preached their persecution by the media and educational establishment for 20 years might be more prone to violent outbursts than the average joe.
““People calling themselves transgender” which includes the people you are excluding”
OK, so more people who commit crime are calling themselves transgender, because more people are calling themselves transgender.
“Somebody referenced about half a dozen over the last 5 years or so.”
Minneapolis, Minnesota, Robert “Robin” Westman, 2025 — detransitioner, no evidence of prior medical transitioning
Nashville, Tennessee, Audrey “Aiden” Hale, 2023 — didn’t start transitioning
Colorado Springs, Colorado, Anderson Lee Aldrich, 2022 — allegedly “non-binary”
Highlands Ranch, Colorado, Alec McKinney, 2019 — actual FTM
Aberdeen, Maryland, Scnochia Moseley, 2018 — didn’t start transitioning
https://thepostmillennial.com/these-are-all-the-mass-shootings-committed-by-trans-people-in-the-us
So only one — possibly jacked up on cocaine and testosterone.
If people say they are “trans”, they are “trans”. That is how the narrative works now. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
“And on Thursday, the conservative Oversight Project urged the FBI to designate “Transgender Ideology Violent Extremism” (TIVE) as a domestic extremism threat category and to “use the full toolkit of the FBI to prevent future attacks inspired by this ideology.”
That’s retarded.
Good morning from Hotlanta Gliba
To be fair, getting the entire elite set to feign concern for “free speech” is like seventeen-dimensional chess.
Meh. Every single one of those new free speech warriors has a huge “But…” lurking behind every statement.
“Jaclyn Taylor, 30, has gone viral after revealing her HOA forced every pet owner in her condominium complex to DNA test their dogs in a controversial crackdown.
Taylor shared her story on TikTok, saying she faced daily fines and public shaming simply for refusing to take part in the scheme to tackle what she sees as a non-existent problem….
‘I have never once seen any dog poop left around our complex. So it felt like a totally made-up problem,’ she added.”
CWABOA
I dunno what changed from last summer but the junkies from across the street and their mean junkyard dogs left much less dog-shit in the yard behind my building this year. There have been so many OD’s that maybe the worst offenders just aren’t around anymore.
The big problem with junkies is that they resort to stealing.
Surprisingly little news of that here. I think most of them are just dealing drugs from their apartments. The windows where we think there was a meth lab fire are still boarded up weeks later lol.
I think it’s funny you assumed it was dog shit.
lol
OMWC, I like your plan for the FCC, and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
I didn’t see any numbers for the Prime-only matches.
The NFL’s greed is going to be their undoing. They’re in such a rush to make every quick buck selling their games to various streaming services that they are risking losing fans who won’t bother paying same said 50 different streamers to watch the games. Having eyeballs on your product is more valuable long term.
We may live in a world where all games are behind a streaming pay wall and many fans are just going to tune out. The NFL will lose it’s cultural dominance.
The NFL is late to the party. Compared to, say, soccer, I’m impressed by the number of games still available for free.
But yeah, eyeballs don’t matter anymore. See also: Netflix, AppleTV, etc.
The way to handle it is like the MLB channel. Stream everything, and what is “too local” and needs to be seen live, just stream a day later. Then people who actually like watching the games can see it.
ZWAK:
Yeah, the MLB seems to have grasped the best way forward (although I’ve heard good things about NHL and several of the car racing leagues). The NFL has fucked themselves with contracts, they have NFL+ which allows you to watch nearly every game… but only on a tablet or phone. Not a computer or a television, those are a separate subscription.
I don’t like the idea of Thursday night football in the first place.
Amen.
Thursday night football has a place in American society. That is when the high school freshman and JV teams play.
“And do that right after shutting down DEA and hanging all of the top brass.”
What’s the original URL? For the last few days I keep getting “An error occurred during a connection to archive.ph. PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR” from all the archive sites.
Here you go.
I fucking hate WaPo’s paywall- the archive sites work for most of us.
I don’t like any paywall. No idea why archives stopped working for me.
“Drug Enforcement Administration officials advocated for a series of military strikes in Mexico earlier this year, alarming some in the White House and Pentagon and presaging the fraught debate underway in Washington over the legality of this month’s deadly attacks on alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean Sea, people familiar with the matter said.”
Are these the same people who knew James Comey’s mind?
All of this could be solved by making drugs legal.
(CT, to answer your Morrissey Q, that looks like a lilac in his trousers, maybe a hyacinth. Peak flower-flinging: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJRP3LRcUFg )
So he thinks his fly is a vase?
Never thought of it that way! Heh. 😏
Just curious, here:
We hate subscription paywalls, and work around them.
We hate ads, and work around them.
Exactly how are news sites supposed to generate revenue, anyway?
Soros funding?
BTW – I pay for my WSJ for that reason, but the ads for subscribers are over the top. I feel no guilt blocking them.
Yeah, I can’t past them lately either.
WaPo loads fine for me but my adblocker is pretty good.
Wait…. the would-be Kavanaugh assasin, the one they just told us was planning to kill 3 justices to tilt the court in an extreme alternative to court-packing….. that would be assasin…. is Trans?????
What in the ….
And they hid it all this time???
WTF is going on with this nationwide agenda to hide the motives of shooters? Did this exist before Vegas??
They only hide it when it’s inconvenient to the narrative.
I’ve been on about that magical Red SUV quite a bit of late. They let a few details sneak out on that one, so we got to see a bit of the sausage being made as they initially said a right wing MAGA Trump supporter sympathetic to Kyle Rittenhouse and things quickly devolved to an SUV that got lost.
Also, if I was about to do a few decades in the federal pen… I 100% would be looking to do it in a womens prison
Someone who only claims they are trans after they are facing prison is not trans.
No one is trans.
There are however a bunch of attention seeking whores in the world.
Back on the 50s and 60s, the CIA was doing MK Ultra. Pumping people full of LSD and doing Clockwork Orange shit to eliminate their morality and freewill.
Now people will do it to themselves. Weak-minded parents will fill their confused kids full of drugs and the wrong hormones during puberty, literally driving them insane. The kids get their genitals mutilated while being filled with ideological hate against their own society. Then they’re set loose.
These insane windup toys attack whoever the media aims them at eventually. Christian school kids, a guy who debates politely, Judges…
Im pretty sure that makes you transphobic. Or maybe Xenophobic? Agorophobic?
I dunno. I just know that we have a very impressive streak of mentally ill killers with certain things in common.
I haven’t seen any evidence that either of the Christian school shooters were on hormones or had surgery.
Same for Charlie Kirk’s assassin’s roommate.
I’ll bet my paycheck they were on antidepressants at a minimum.
“’ll bet my paycheck they were on antidepressants at a minimum.”
Likely, but SSRI’s are way different than hormones.
I missed the news entirely that someone tried to kill Kavanaugh. This is the first I’m hearing of it, that I recall. So it must have went away quickly from the news cycle.
He was at the Congressional ballgame shooting, as well.
Once it was determined that it wasn’t a card-carrying member of the Michigan Militia, they memory holed it.
You can never reach peak government stupidity.
Oklahoma’s big “TV nudes” scandal was… a Jackie Chan movie on a Samsung streaming service
Jackie Chan’s The Protector
Have not seen that one. I’ll have to track it down.
Seen it. Can confirm. Pretty good Chan film.
If y’all dont believe me now that we are still in the monkey stage I dont know what it would take.
Unfortunately and apparently Lord Kelvin had no children — so I couldn’t wish Happy Birthday to the one that didn’t bother going to university (and hence had zero degrees…)
Morning all. Glad the puppers are keeping each other happy (a lot). I personally think that’s good for pets since humans can’t always give them attention when they desire it.
“Unfortunately and apparently Lord Kelvin had no children”
Absolute zero?
The fallout from this from both the left and the right is going to be hysterical.
Trump Adds $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee and Rolls Out $1 Million ‘Gold Card’
Wow. Any Democrat from 1980 through 2008 would love this.
I’m very interested to see the discussion in the work chat on Monday about the H1-B change.
That is something else.
I wonder which judges are rushing to overturn it.
a dude who was totally chill
Happy birthday John Gorrie.
Sigh… still missed a great opportunity back in the ’90s. GenX was aware (and cynical) enough that I don’t think we would have been shocked at said third rail going away… they could have sold it as phasing out by my generation and stopped pissing money down onto that third rail.
That they did not was shocking, I know.
The best time was when Al Gore put the funds in a “lock box”
Fucking hell. “We wont spend it! We will just put it in treasuries so it is safe!!!”
That moment lead directly to today’s $30+ trillion in debt and annual deficits of 50% and more.
How ya gonna pay back the T-Bills Al? Where does that money come from?
The dumbest idea in history and most people just nodded along.
And the fucking Recucklicans didn’t call him out on it in the debate. I would have said, “Mr. Gore, let’s take a detour on the campaign trail and meet tomorrow in Philly, and we can bring a news crew and open up the file cabinet where the IOU’s are. America can see your lockbox for what it is. And it isn’t a bunch of gold sitting in Ft Knox.”
I’ve often said of GenX that if you didn’t know by the time you were 25 that there would be no Social Security for you, you weren’t payng attention.
My rinky dinky little Southern Baptist school in Independence, Missouri taught us how Social Security was a Ponzi scheme. My husband’s not so rinky dinky public high school in Pomona, California taught him the same thing.
Shared culture for the win!
I haven’t seen it split by age but I am reminded of the surveys showing the only some tiny percentage of Americans actually have anything saved for retirement. Old age is going to be a rude awakening for a lot of people.
I don’t, but I expected to die at 50, so 51 was kind of a shocker. And also, panic.
rhywun:
The problem is most of those only focus on 401(k) balances. I don’t know about you, but I roll those into an IRA when I switch jobs, although quite a few people don’t.
This looks better, but the big delta between average and median is where the real story is.
Those median numbers are scary as hell. Half of people at quasi retirement age with less than $200k in the bank? Thats not 200k a year, that’s 200k total. $10k/year if you don’t eat your principal. Maybe $17k if you’re okay running out of cash at 85.
How many of those people have a $2k mortgage payment still?
I’m downright shocked at the retirement numbers for my demographic. Sometimes I feel behind (and fidelity is constantly telling me I’m behind), but the numbers tell a very different story. For any youngins out there, start investing early, like at age 18. It doesn’t have to be much to pay off.
How many of those people have a $2k mortgage payment still?
My problem isn’t the mortgage payment (P&I are less than $300), it’s the taxes ($800-900). I could own my house outright and it would barely change my cash flow.
It doesn’t hurt to have been poor in an early life.
I have said for a long time
There’s nothing wrong with being poor but…
there may be something wrong with liking it
+1 Walmart greeter Rhy
I could own my house outright and it would barely change my cash flow.
There’s an article way back in the archives of this site where I make the argument that property tax is the most evil tax. Your situation is a great example why.
it’s the taxes ($800-900)
I also want to point out that my P&I is 10x yours and my property tax would be paid off in 2 months at your rate. NY is engaged in highway robbery.
Yep, I was already primed for there to be no SS by the time I retired, so “just” bumping up retirement age would not have been a big deal.
I’m still not counting on it being there a decade from now, but I imagine any nu,ber of my cohort are at this point.
I loudly and repeatedly have ranted in a somewhat unhinged way about this since they did the “trust fund”
We get to pay into the trust fund. Then pay back the T-Bills so the boomers can withdraw the money, pay the rest of their obligation, then not have social security at the end because of demographics
Even very smart people have not been able to grasp the simple concept that an IOU written to yourself is worthless
A gigantic wealth transfer to the boomers. I wonder if anyone has calculated it.
Giant wealth transfer to the “Greatest” generation (and even more so to their parents that never paid into it).
My dad worked until he was 67 (in 1962). Then got on the dole. He was getting about $60 a month. My Mom was 11 years younger, had not worked at paying jobs very much. When she was 65 my Dad died, Mom got some portion of his entitlement.
I guess that is one way to get a threesome on your wedding night.
I beg to differ. This is so bad it somehow sinks into your head, never to be evicted. And in only 16 seconds.
What a sad story. The girls had their own Murry Wilson, apparently.
Not quite as catchy as “Love Rhino”
I’ve posted this before and had it called the worst song ever.
For your consideration. Quack like a duck.
Have we confirmed this was an actual Mauser made Model 98? Or is NBC talking out its ass again like with this gem:
Charlie Kirk assassin’s alleged gun was powerful, vintage and hard to trace
Wow. They say there is no way for security for the president to defend against this threat of a gun from before the 1960 requirement of serial numbers. They say there are millions of such guns in the US.
I suppose they theorize that those old guns sprang into existence last week, already aged 60 or more years old.
Well, yeah. Pre-’68 this was no big deal, lots of bring backs, no import restrictions, mail order was legal, and, in short, nothing like today. If it was a Mauser, it had a serial number, but, bid deal, t wasn’t in some data-base, which wouldn’t help you if it was bought and sold before that year, or was done as a private purchase. Like a million other firearms today.
Plus they allow somebody with no training to hit targets at 1,000 yards.
“Short of the security afforded to the president, there’s no way to defend against the threat posed by this,” said Scott Sweetow, a retired official with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
Talk about burying the lede – it was a GERMAN MADE MAUSER. GERMAN MADE. LIKE, AS IN NAZI GERMANY. Thus, the assassin was clearly a disgruntled Trump supporter made that Charlie didn’t go far enough.
Christ…
A mauser 98 in 30-06….that is going to be a Columbian or Belgian contract. They were FN made in the ’50’s. They have serial numbers.
What I want to see is someone disassemble one, stuff it in their pants and then run with it inside of…how many seconds from the shot to seeing him run across the roof? Walking around with one in your pants would be nearly impossible.
Mind you, we are getting our info from poeple who mistook a headstamp for an inscription by the shooter.
Don’t forget the classic earplugs mistaken for rubber bullets.
“Short of the security afforded to the president, there’s no way to defend against the threat posed by this,” said Scott Sweetow, a retired official with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
And that failed twice too…
That drum part is fantastic! It sounds EXACTLY like me at Guitar Center testing out one of the electronic drum sets. A professional who also teaches came over and asked me what beat I was trying to play and offered lessons.
“No Gene Krupa”? Denied!
Next time, just tell him you’re playing a 7/8 polyrhythm with your hands over a 3/8 polyrhythm with your feet and he will leave you be.
I went to bed somewhere between 12:30 and 1:00a, then was up at 6:45a. I didn’t even know what 6:45a looked like from the front side. I’ve had my 7:00a amphetamines and I’m still sleepy.
Hahaha…. get yerself a case of prostate cancer! Then you can stay up until 1:30, get up again at 2:30, then 4:30 and finally start the day at 5.
And people wonder why I get tired after lunch…
Even without the cancer the ol’ prostate dances to its own music.
But, I need the exercise anyway.
You don’t have to have prostate cancer to be compelled to the bathroom several times a night (not me, my mother).
I will say this, though. I have a cast-iron bladder. I’ll have a peeing dream, where I am actually peeing in my dream (versus looking at water in my dream and then start looking for a bathroom in my dream) and still be able to wake up and make it to the bathroom.
That’s control.
Miss Jackson if you’re nasty.
🤣
Threadwinner!
The only times I wake up having to pee anymore are if I have carbs after around 4pm and get the blood sugar spike at 3am or there is a three year old in my bed kicking me.
The tree spiders are back.
Nice shot!
“The recipient told the Guardian the posts felt “deliberately provocative and ultimately exploitative of the children and families involved”.
I’m thinking if you find pictures of 13-year-olds in school uniforms provocative, that’s a you problem.
What if you’re 14 ?
Hell, there is a whole sub genre of Japanese AVs devoted to nothing but schoolgirls.
No shit
When I see a 13yo girl I think ‘bottomless money pit’.
I have one at home. She has developed that straight-from-the-movies teen girl attitude lately. The kind that makes her scream “shut up!!!!” When she is asked if she did her homework.
So when I see 13 year old girl, I have a whole different set of thoughts….
I can tell which classes my teenage daughter likes by which classes I have to nag her about homework.
I have one of those too. Funny how you think your perfect girl will never turn into a shrieking hellion. And then she does.
Open that wallet and buy her a horse!
“Career up in smoke: FDNY boss resigns after furor over ‘racist’ cotton-ball game at NYC school”
https://nypost.com/2025/09/20/us-news/fdny-boss-michele-maglione-resigns-after-furor-over-racist-cotton-ball-game-at-nyc-school/
STIJLTH
Some of them were wearing cotton clothing too!
Poor judgement.
I wonder what they would make of our church’s “messy games” youth event.
In one event the kids spray shaving cream all over a teammate’s head and then attempt to throw cheese puff balls on it from a distance in order to make an orange cheeto chia pet hairdo.
Would they claim we are doing some sort of MAGA grooming exercise for the Bad Orange Man? Or maybe that we are disrespectfully mocking his cheeto-ness?
And the goofy hair competition, where they use a whole bottle of hair gel and any number of things (including mini-plungers and soda cans) to build hair masterpieces. Cultural appropriation?
What would they make of our multi-racial group, with people from dozens of countries and most every race represented? Is it racist if an Asian girl carries a spoon in her mouth with an egg on the end to hand off to a kid from Cameroon?
These rules are so complicated. Particularly at a time when the left is apoplectic about MAGA cancel culture
You are talking about the black pajama crowd. Everything is conformation, no one can stand out. No humor, no creativity, no imagination, no innovation.
Your games would be soundly denounced.
The only safe play is to interact only with people who look and think exactly like you.
should have dyed the cotton balls black?
Enjoy the mutts, OM. We have 3- a GSD, a Boxer, and a Rott (130 lbs) all under the age of 3.
Its frequently chaos.
I’ll be heading out for Honey Harvest in a bit. I’ll try to set up a Zoom at the event tomorrow for those who wish to attend in absentia.
Since you are an expert… I have something bugging me that I just cant shake.
I was standing at Costco looking at several pallates of honey. Big containers of honey, creating a giant cube of honey that clearly weighed more than an SUV.
And then I thought about all the stores. Every Costco. Every Sams club. Every Walmart, Publix, Kroger and so forth. A huge display of “fresh honey”.
Pure honey.
Uh….. how?
Is that realistic? Is there enough kept bees out there to provide millions and millions and millions of gallons of honey across the US, Europe, Asia, south america…..
It just seems like…. way too much to be plausible.
Using honey to flavor corn syrup is a thing, a thing nobody likes to talk about. Apparently China (shocker, I know) puts many, many tons of ‘honey’ on the market.
Honey product is a common item at dollar stores. 10% honey.
But yes, pure honey is available every where, even local stuff in Alaska.
Cool.
I’m working and have good enough signal I should be able to watch.
I watched Candy O’s latest video. Apparently, the government is controlled by Zionists, it’s weird that Netanyahu would respond to online accusations that Israel was behind Kirk’s murder, and that Tyler Robinson did it doesn’t fit. Much of it was kind of goofy. She suggested a female fed wrote the text messages because a man wouldn’t call his clothes an “outfit” or call a police car a “squad car.”
Well, she does have a point about “outfit”
We are dealing with a lunatic with a tranny boyfriend.
Candace Owen has a tranny boyfriend??
Powerline,
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/09/the-week-in-pictures-party-of-peace-edition.php
That schoolgirls thing us completely incomprehensible to me.
“Kat Von D has revealed what she looks like now after inking out 80% of her body with tattoos.
The tattoo artist, 42, first revealed in October that she would be covering up all of her colourful artwork with solid black ink after becoming ‘fed up’ with her look. ”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15107919/Kat-Von-D-blacking-tattoo-ink.html
Cultural appropriation?
Yikes.
“There aren’t too many great examples of people who have shifted from the entertainment industry to music that can be taken seriously.’”
Traci Lordes concurs.
Steve Martin would like a word.
When are people going to learn – you dont leave nutcases or little children alone with magic markers. Good grief.
She seems to have gotten her shit together.
Not the route I would go with tatts but her skin, her business.
I played https://squaredle.com 09/20:
*29/29 words (+12 bonus words)
📖 In the top 1% by bonus words
🔥 Solve streak: 808
That was probably the funkiest looking Squardle ever.
And that was just the start. From Washington to Los Angeles, according to interviews with more than 15 Democratic operatives across the country, the tome landed with a thud among a political class struggling to make sense of the former vice president’s account, which is peppered with digs at fellow party members and frustrations with how her warp-speed campaign played out.
How is that anything but a giant fuck you to the Democratic party? Does anybody (including Harris) think she has a future of any sort in politics?
To any of our car mechanically inclined participants:
About how much should it cost to replace the motor mounts/isolators on a 2008 4-runner? Have a relatively trustworthy shop but recently underwent a management transition, I believe within the family, but I’m always leery of being boned – not that way you pervs – in areas I really know very little about. Parts don’t look terribly expensive, it’s not a really involved process to replace, but tedious/hard to reach and I don’t have the tools; or as mentioned the experience. So willing to pay, but not ‘overpay’.
He also had a list of things on the suspension that need to be replaced that comes to something like $5k; still need to do some research on those to see if it seems reasonable to have all that at once (tie-rod ends, some ball joint thingy, struts? – have it all written down at work). I always get squirrely when a whole bundle of things come down the pipe at once…
Have you asked Grok?
From my youtube knowledge, 3 guys can do it in about 3 minutes of video time for a hundred bucks.
YouTube car guys never pay for labor
Motormounts shouldn t be bad.
I’d buy a floor jack, the parts (allwase go OEM, NEVER buy Anchor brand rubber parts), and the tools (don’t forget a piece of wood on the oil pan) and do it myself.
Ball joints and tie rods suck but shouldn’t cost that much, you’ll need an alignment after that. Unless you know what you’re doing and have air tools pay someone to do that job. Struts, I’d do that myself. Again, there are some specialty tools involved (sometimes) with struts you may not want to mess around with.
Is that realistic? Is there enough kept bees out there to provide millions and millions and millions of gallons of honey across the US, Europe, Asia, south america…..
It’s fake, made from old tires and natural gas. Bees have been extinct for decades.
Dammit! I paid extra for the certified stuff
how much should it cost to replace the motor mounts/isolators on a 2008 4-runner?
Does it make weird knocking noises when you’re driving it? Does the motor rock “excessively” when you rev it (looking at it from outside with the hood open)?
It probably has some sort of super duper liquid filled mounts. In theory, it should be possible to lift and support the motor and and swap them out without pulling the motor, but who knows? You might find a youtube video.
As for cost, I i have no clue.
Some excessive vibration at speed, rough idle. Replacing plugs seems to have fixed
the later mostly. Going to test the engine rocking today. It does seem pretty straightforward to fix, but I don’t have a lift to support the engine and the bolts seem quite hard to reach without fancy ratchets that I don’t have.
Use a floor jack to raise the engine.
Or raise the car and put wood sleepers under the engine and lower the car.
We did that with a couple of cars back in the day.
Averages $1K to $2K. It’s the labor and the fact that most modern engines are so tight you have to remove accessories and pull the engine to get at them. I just had that done and I got to watch it be done. Huge PIA.
It’s beautiful and luxurious, but crazy over-engineered. $3k or so in today’s money.
The Revox B225 – a touch of Swiss class
He keeps saying how wonderful it is to service because it’s serviceable. However, it’s so needlessly complex that it needs so much service.
If you gave me one I’d almost take my CD collection out of storage to use it, however.
The point of it eludes me, but I have gone totally NAS and streaming for my sources.
All FLAC format from my NAS as well.
Me too.
Idiots
I look at it the way those of us who wear mechanical watches do.
Fun and nostalgic, but inefficient with no tangible benefit.
But the convenience and space savings of the NAS can’t be beat.
Speaking pf youtube car videos, when I replaced the starter on the Element, there were a couple which said, “Oh, you don’t need to pull the intake manifold off. Just reach up in there.”
I don’t know what king of little babygirl hands those guys have, but my hands wouldn’t go there. Not to mention the need for X-ray vision to see what you’re doing. Off with the intake manifold. The “extra” time to pull and replace the manifold is substantially less than the time wasted fumbling around blind and getting pissed off.
dingdingding – Just went thru this with my Mazda. The tensioner bolt on the serpentine belt is virtually impossible to get at. I got that fucker on there, with some assistance, but if you don’t have carny-hands, you’re screwed.
Or
Cross threading bolts in aluminum when you try to put them back blind. Metric fine thread I’m looking at you.
One member of Harris’ inner circle said the book was not intended as a “burn the boats” sign-off from public service.
“I would not advise anyone to draw that conclusion,” said the person, who was granted anonymity to discuss private conversations. The person noted that Harris spends a lot of time in the book recounting her foreign policy experience as vice president and defending the achievements of the Biden-Harris administration — the kind of discourse that suggests that Harris could be burnishing her credentials for a future bid.
They’ll want her back. They need her.
“A resolution to honor Charlie Kirk’s life and condemn political violence passed 310 to 58 votes in the House of Representatives,, with 95 Democrats supporting the resolution. 58 Democrat House members, however, voted against it with 38 others voting “present”
https://thepostmillennial.com/breaking-resolution-honoring-charlie-kirk-condemning-political-violence-passes-house-58-dems-vote-no-38-vote-present
The message I get from that is both sides play Gotcha! with “resolutions” that everybody knows who will vote which way on.
The message that I got was that the CBC is still a bunch of race baiting asshats.
Sore subject. You would not believe the vile shit my ex and I got from those folks back in the day.
I would believe it.
Because America, fuck yeah.
Now do the Epstein roll calls.
“New York City socialist mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is facing renewed criticism after it was revealed that he once signed a letter labeling Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, who was assassinated last week, as an “extremist” while attempting to block him from speaking in Queens, Mamdani’s district as assemblyman.
In June 2023, Mamdani and several other local Democrats issued a press release condemning Motif Studios for agreeing to host a Turning Point USA and Blexit event at the Tammany House in Long Island City, according to Fox News. The letter accused Kirk, along with Candace Owens and other invited speakers, of promoting “transphobic, bigoted views.””
https://thepostmillennial.com/socialist-zohran-mamdani-tried-to-cancel-charlie-kirk-nyc-event-over-lies-about-transphobia-bigotry
CWAA
fReE sPeEcH!
HATE SPEECH IS NOT FREE SPEECH!!!!!!
Where have you gone, Walter Cronkite?
The disparate statements from the conservative vice president and the liberal talk show host revealed a troubling fact: there is a deep schism in how Americans understand the assassination that took place a little more than a week ago.
That gap is being widened by social media. More than half of U.S. adults now get their news sometimes or often from social media platforms, and those platforms are fragmenting how Americans view what’s happening.
American politics has long been home to conspiracies and even fracturings of understanding around events, said Nicole Hemmer, a professor of history at Vanderbilt University.
“What’s new is the speed at which all of this is shared, the ease of access that people have to it, and the algorithmic push,” she said.
If only we had a phalanx of trusted narrative-setting experts to explain the world to us.
I am sure the push that starts in kindergarten to indoctrinate our children with an ideology that deliberately has zero connection to reality , MSM and pols that never, under any circumstances, argue in good faith and constantly fostering divisiveness has nothing to do with it. Yeah, it’s tiktok that done it.
Daycare/headstart.
Don’t let the state have your children.
Yesterday my son sent me an article on HIV being completely whipped by gene splicing. We can now simply go in and remove all of the HIV genetic material from our cells. Now do the most horrible disease in human history: Rabies.
I am blown away by the technological progress in my lifetime. I think back to what it was like…hell, I remember being very young and my grandparents still had a phone on the wall that had a crank on it to charge it up…you know, the old one with separate speaker and mic.
Shorly after that they were excited to get the rotary dial type but it was a party line. Now we can selectively remove genes from our cells, have a rover on mars and the entirety of human knowledge in our pockets.
Consider how lucky we are. Prior to the enlightenment generations would be born and die without any noticeable change in technology.
Day to day the world looks like shit but looking at the big picture maybe it isnt so bad after all.
CRISPR is a complete game changer. My grad project involved making a specific mutation to hemoglobin to make a transgenic mouse with sickle cell disease. To do that I had to insert hemoglobin gene into a plasmid, design and oligonucleotide to do a site directed mutation, select and sequence colonies to get a clone that worked, take that and build up the insertion sequences, grow a bunch of that and electroplating into mouse eggs….. check mice to is where and if your gene managed to insert itself…. it was a lot of stuff.
Now? Get a kit and edit the exact gene sequence. Turn 2 years into a month or less.
I am trying to get my head around it.
If we can selectively remove or insert genetic material that easily, christ, that is the fountain of youth.
Also, AI to help us read, select and build the genetic material. I am blown away that i lived to see this.
They built this Fairytale Castle WHERE?!?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7nAPlu0uZY
in Wyoming is where
You need good guns to defend a castle.
but think how many orphans you could fit in those tunnels
But Hemmer added, the choice of others to reshare is driven by the fact that social media “rewards this kind of extreme content.” Many who re-shared the images are making money and gaining followers off of it, she notes. “That’s just part of the incentive structure of media today,” she said.
Those people are stealing food off the tables of legitimate journalists.
i’s rather not I fear many legitimate journalists have some vegan crap on their table.
https://www.reddit.com/r/mapporncirclejerk/comments/1nlxrxs/you_can_only_live_in_one_color_strip_for_the_rest/
Yellow, and it’s not even close. No hesitation.
Orange. This place is in my blood. I have no desire to leave Louisiana again in my life. Name it, I have been there and have zero reason to return.
I’m all region-warred out after the last couple maps.
I reject their categorization. I chose the region where get deciduous trees, decent annual rainfall and a hard freeze in the winter. East of the Mississippi, north of the Mason-Dixon.
Sounds like butthurt whining
President Donald Trump on Friday reiterated his claim that critical television coverage of him is “illegal” and pushed back on criticisms that his administration was taking actions that chill free speech.
“When 97 percent of the stories are bad about a person, it’s no longer free speech,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, complaining about an apparent asymmetry between his victory in the 2024 election and his treatment by media organizations. It was not immediately clear what statistics or laws he was referencing.
Do us all a favor.
Go home, Donald – you’re drunk.
Trump should just say, “You hate me because I’m right, nyah nyah nyah” and let the rest of it go. But that’s not his style.
It’s the labor and the fact that most modern engines are so tight you have to remove accessories and pull the engine to get at them.
I keep forgetting they have everything wedged up under the windshield now. If you just pull the cab off, everything is accessible. Piece of cake.